The new image has been released in an attempt to identify a young man whose badly decomposed body was found in remote woodland two years ago

POLICE have launched a new appeal to discover the identity of a man whose decomposed body was found four years ago in a remote spot north of Glasgow.

A wildlife photographer who had been in the area of woodland in East Dunbartonshire noticed a hanging corpse when he was examining his pictures on a laptop later that day.

But exactly four years on from the discovery in October 2011, police are no further forward in their bid to identify the man. No identification was found on the body, and no one has come forward to offer any clues about the man found in woodland, near Balmore.

A team of experts led by Professor Sue Black at Dundee University produced a picture of the man based on scans of his skull. Police believe the likeness is their best hope of ever identifying the man. And they still hold out hope that his remains can be returned to his family.

Nobody has come forward to report the man as missing and nobody has come forward to claim him.

A police spokesman said: “There were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.”

Bone samples were sent for testing but there was no match on the national police database.

Police and forensic experts believe he was between 20 and 35-years-old, around 5ft 8in tall, with light brown hair.

He was wearing a light-blue polo shirt from Topshop, blue jeans and a navy blue zipper jumper, which had a knitted band around the collar with a white band as well as a Greek Pennsylvania motif.

The polo shirt had white writing on front and a maroon diagonal band running across it. He was wearing navy and black trainers, which had ‘waterproof’ written on the sole.

Beside his remains was a grey Nike satchel, which contained two razors, a toothbrush, toiletries, headphones, a lighter, cigarette papers and some clothes.